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Cruise ship stomach bug illnesses hit 12-year high: CDC

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The CDC found that from 2006 to 2019, an average of 12 outbreaks of gastrointestinal illnesses took place on cruise ships. Health experts told the outlet that cases of the virus can become more prevalent in crowded, semi-enclosed environments that are often found on cruise ships.

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Eating vegetables does not protect against cardiovascular disease, finds large-scale study

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Upon their enrollment in 2006-2010, these volunteers were interviewed about their diet, lifestyle, medical and reproductive history, and other factors. Read original article ? Download o riginal article (pdf). The UK Biobank, follows the health of half a million adults in the UK by linking to their healthcare records.

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Dr Nina Hall to lead Frontiers’ Commitments to UN SDG Publishers Compact

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In 2006, she was awarded a PhD in Ocean and Earth Science from the University of Southampton before becoming a postdoctoral researcher in Marine Science at the UK’s National Oceanography Centre.

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FDA proposes removing ineffective decongestant found in most cold medicine

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Phenylephrine became the main decongestant in over-the-counter cold and allergy medicines in 2006, after the more effective decongestant pseudoephedrine was moved behind the counter and restricted, because it could be used to make methamphetamine.

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How Will The Cloud Impact Data Warehousing Technologies?

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In order to circumvent this issue and ensure more efficient big data analytics systems, engineers from companies like Yahoo created Hadoop in 2006, as an Apache open source project, with a distributed processing framework which made the running of big data applications possible even on clustered platforms.

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Five Nobel Prize winners publish scientific article collection for children

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Kornberg , awarded The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006. Quasi-Crystal, Not Quasi-Scientist , written by Dan Shechtman , awarded The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011. The Transcription of Life: from DNA to RNA , written by Roger D.

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New method predicts ‘stealth’ solar storms before they wreak geomagnetic havoc on Earth

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Unusually for stealth CMEs, their origin on the Sun was approximately known only because NASA’s twin STEREO spacecraft, launched in 2006, had happened to capture them ‘off-limb’. Palmerio and collaborators looked at four stealth CMEs that occurred between 2008 and 2016. Read original article ? Download original article (pdf).

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